Bio​Lead singer:Seamus Edge - Lead guitar: Stuart McGurn - Rhythm guitar: Mark Dunn - Bass guitar: Nick Stockport - Drummer: Scott McCall.The Voluntearsare a five-piece indie-rock band from the North East of England. The band formed in 2014 and in the summer of the same year recorded their first track, Feels like Home, which was released as a music video. It attracted thousands of views in a short space of time, and despite not being officially released, the track reached number 23 as pick of the week in the Dutch indie-music charts. Following the success of Feels like Home on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, the band went on to have an epic 2014. The Voluntears played gigs at some of the region’s top music venues: Newcastle University and the O2 Academy. The band landed support slots with up-and-coming bands such as The Spitfires, John McCullough and The Escorts, fresh from supporting Cast on their UK tour and pop rockers The Natives, as well as more established bands like The Rifles. The Voluntears also had some festival success, sharing the stage with The Jacksons, Scouting for Girls, Adam Ant, Hugh Cornwell (The Stranglers), Dodgy, Simple Minds, The Sherlocks and many more. They headlined a private gig at a Premier North East Hotel near their home town to a sell-out crowd and finished the year on familiar turf on the Newcastle O2 Academy’s main stage as part of the line-up to raise money for the teenage cancer trust.

2015 saw the release of their debut E.P., No place Special, and received glowing reviews from printed and online magazines. As a result, the band won a five-thousand-pound PR package with MUZU TV with their second video release from the E.P., And I Know, which was voted top pick in MUZU's May Competition. They had a hefty gig schedule in 2015, with headline and support slots booked all over the country, at Richmond Live, North East Calling and yet another main-stage appearance at Hardwick Live, alongside Razorlight, James, Embrace, Cast, 10cc, Scott Matthews, The Beat, Meadowlark and many more. Shortly after Hardwick Live, the boys finished recording their eagerly awaited demo album Beggars Belief. The album launch party was back at Newcastle's O2 Academy, where tickets sold out rapidly for the event. The album launch gig took place on the 2nd of October 2015, where The Voluntears performed the album with a couple of new tracks to yet another sell-out audience. Beggars Belief is available from HMV, iTunes, Amazon and most other music outlets and has already received glowing reviews from a number of magazines such as Vive Le Rock.

In 2016, the band hit the road running and didn't stop, supporting bands such as Cast, Space, Shed 7, and Ocean Colour Scene on their twentieth-anniversary tour of their first album release. They released their next song and video Hey Girl, which was also enthusiastically received by the press and their fans. The summer saw the band feature on their first film soundtrack of a British indie-gangster film called Mob Handed, starring Leslie Grantham, Danniella Westbrook and Lysette Anthony. The lads played the year's main stage at Northumberland Live and Newcastle's Times Square. Finally, they have just recorded their next single, OhHello!, and will be recording their next music video in 2017. They are currently in the studio writing fresh material for their next release and working very hard to secure some quality gigs and festivals around the country.